Photo of Texas Book Depository
Moorman also took a photo of the Presidential limousine which shows the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in the background, moments before the shots were fired. Developed on the scene, Dallas deputy sheriff John Wiseman asked for the photo from Moorman. Wiseman told the Dallas sheriff's department that he had looked at the picture, but he was not asked what the image on the photo showed. Lawyer and investigator Mark Lane told Playboy magazine that Moorman's picture was turned over by Wiseman to agents of the United States Secret Service. In the February 1967, Playboy interview, Lane states that the photo has never been published. No one will say where it is, nor is it available in the National Archives. Lane assumed the United States Government was keeping the photo at an undisclosed place. However, he said no one would say where it is. Lane elaborated, saying that Moorman's photo probably showed Lee Harvey Oswald or anyone who may have been shooting at the President's car, because it was taken just seconds prior to shots being fired, Lane speculated that it might have been published on the cover of the Warren Report. The Polaroid image would possibly have shown whether Oswald was the shooter. It may have indicated the origin of some of the shots fired at the Presidential limousine, as well. Lane left it open for readers to determine their conclusions as to what Moorman's picture did or did not show.
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